Had a good look today at the front of Lime st station, and it is looking grim.
Those shops in the front of it- thay look a disgrace, the sooner they are swept away the better. Makes you wonder how they ever dreamed up the idea of sticking them there all those years ago in the first place. They have never looked nice - even in the early days. The front of that station could look really smart.

They should hurry up and sweep away those decrepit old shops.
The arched windows of the station will be revealed and hopefully restored to their former glory. The space in front of the entrance will be smartened and something nice replacing the shops. It would look so much better.

But councillors rejected the application last summer, saying it would clash with a tower planned as part of a redevelopment of the outside of the station.

On Monday, the firm's attempt to quash the Lime Street scheme, later approved by the city council, failed in London's high court.

But the developer will still try to get the go-ahead for its own proposal - at a car park site in Skelhorne Street.

A spokesman for Chieftain said: "We are disappointed with the court's decision, but are still appealing against the original refusal. That will be heard by a planning inspector at a public inquiry, starting on April 25."

Chieftain wanted a judicial review of approval of the Lime Street scheme on August 23.

Three weeks earlier, on August 2, Chieftain's project was blocked, partly because the council said it would clash with the Lime Street tower.

In court, Chieftain argued the council, after deciding the two projects were incompatible, should have considered them together at one meeting.

But Deputy Judge George Bartlett QC refused to grant a judicial review, saying Chieftain did not have a reasonable prospect of success.

English Partnerships hopes to start work on its scheme later this year, but the tower - a replacement for Concourse House - will not be ready until midway through 2008.

Liverpool in Pictures/ YO! Liverpool has taken me over 10 years to develop and maintain.